Fireflies

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Title:     Fireflies
Author: Bliss Carman [More Titles by Carman]

The fireflies across the dusk
Are flashing signals through the gloom--
Courageous messengers of light
That dare immensities of doom.

About the seeding meadow-grass,
Like busy watchmen in the street,
They come and go, they turn and pass,
Lighting the way for Beauty's feet.

Or up they float on viewless wings
To twinkle high among the trees,
And rival with soft glimmerings
The shining of the Pleiades.

The stars that wheel above the hill
Are not more wonderful to see,
Nor the great tasks that they fulfill
More needed in eternity.

[The end]
Bliss Carman's poem: Fireflies

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